Iedere (nieuwe) groep doorloopt de welbekende fases van groepsvorming. In de meeste gevallen ontstaan sympathieke, effectieve en veilige groepen, waarin leerlingen zich fijn voelen, samenwerken, fouten durven maken en initiatief tonen. Er zijn echter ook groepen waarin er reden en ruimte is voor negatief leiderschap. In deze groepen is vaker sprake van macht, intimidatie, uitsluiting, ruzie, onrust, roddelen en pesten. Potentiële positieve leiders krijgen geen voet aan de grond.

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Organisaties hebben een sterk verlangen naar vernieuwing, creativiteit en out-of-the-box denken. Maar hardnekkige controlemechanismen staan dat verlangen in de weg en veroorzaken ongekende schade. Een op de zes werknemers heeft burn-outklachten, bijna twee miljoen mensen ervaren een toxische werkomgeving. 

In dit boek laat Bas Kodden zien hoe we optimale prestaties, creativiteit en initiatief kunnen stimuleren en benutten. Het herkennen en omhelzen van non-conformistisch gedrag is de sle...

Available for the first time ever in trade paperback, Dale Carnegie's enduring classic, the inspirational personal development guide that shows how to achieve lifelong success. One of the top-selling books of all time, "How to Win Friends & Influence People" has sold more than 15 million copies in all its editions.

Gain a complete grounding in Accounting and Finance and develop the skills to make successful business decisions.

Accounting and Finance: An Introduction, 11th edition is the ideal guide to the subject, providing the knowledge you need to build your skills for a career in Business.

With its approachable style and language that is easy to understand, this edition will help you learn how to use financial information and reports and expand your learning from theory to practice.

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Tortora/Case/Bair/Weber/Funke's Microbiology, An Introduction delivers an exceptionally clear presentation of complex topics, a careful balance of concepts and applications, and pedagogically superior art. With a focus on big-picture concepts and themes in microbiology, the text encourages you to visualize and synthesize more difficult topics such as microbial metabolism, immunology and microbial genetics. The trusted clinical focus and student-friendly narrative will help you understand why ...

Organized thematically around important questions in comparative politics—who rules? what explains political behavior? where and why?—Introducing Comparative Politics integrates a set of extended case studies of 11 countries that vividly illustrate issues in cross-national context. The cases are placed within the chapters where they make the most sense —not separated from the theory or in a separate volume—helping students make connections between theory and practice earlier in the se...

Think Faster, Talk Smarter is the essential guide to finding and delivering the right words when it matters the most – in the moment. From Stanford University lecturer Matt Abrahams.

Positive Psychology uses a storytelling approach to provide a broad and objective understanding of the science of well-being, and to show how this knowledge can be applied to our own lives and to the well-being of entire societies.